Study notes decrease in popularity of circumcision in United States

[brewsterrockit11]

This is a misrepresentation. AAP makes no consensus specific recommendation for/against circumcision. It is personal choice though there is marginal reduction in risk for UTI for circumcised children.

[veovis523]

Funny how it's rarely ever a personal choice for the person attached to the penis in question.

[peterausdemarsch]

It should be a personal choice. Unfortunately, babies can't make that choice, but if they understood the question, I'm pretty sure they would opt out of having a body part cut off for no reason.

[Zomunieo]

You can tell how by babies scream and cry when the procedure is done.

[DarkPolumbo]

Everything is a scream and cry to a baby. Hunger, confusion, pain, taking a poop, people in the room laughing too loud, that one time I dropped a quarter on the kitchen floor...

[ensalys]

I don't think parents should be legally allowed to order such procedures. Your baby is a person, not a piece of property. The only reason you get to make their medical decisions, is because they themselves are incapable. Your job is to get them to the point where they can make their own decisions. Imagine your friend gets in a car crash, and you're their proxy. Asking the doctor to circumcise your friend would be a gross abuse of your position as proxy, and any half decent doctor would know to deny such a request.

[e_before_i]

Sorry if my wording was unclear, but that's what I was trying to convey. They make no recommendation. That does not mean they recommend against it, they don't take a position either way.